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Subject: Re: LONDON-D Digest V00 #607
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:16:42 EDT


Roz - we live in the North West of England but my husband was born and
brought up in Holloway, North London. He tells me that he and his cousins
were often packed off to the pie and mash shop round the corner for their
lunch. Apparently, they all loved it except him. He says to tell you "Don't
bother to even try - it's disgusting!!!!" So there you go. I have never been
anywhere near one of these places although a friend told us that there was a
cafe serving it at Hastings, Sussex a couple of years back (hardly London!).
While on the subject of traditional London food, my grandmother who I was
always led to believe was Welsh (name: Jane Owen) loved jellied eels. I
searched for ages for her birth in Wales then decided that only a Londoner
could like jellied eels (sorry!). Turned out she was born in Holborn, just
off the City Road! She loved them so much that she was even requesting them
from her death bed - or so the story goes!

Shirley
in Cumbria.

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